Blackwoods Shetland Gin

Blackwoods Shetland Gin contains handpicked Shetland botanicals each year to give our gin its distinctive, yet subtle, flavour.

Each year’s harvest is determined by the plants available from these distant islands. Using a traditional copper still, they only produce small batches.

Harsh weather conditions only allow four hundred plant species to flourish.

However, isolated and sheltered areas, like cliff edges, provide beautiful hanging gardens of unusually hardy plants which have adapted to survive in these extreme climatic conditions.

Blackwoods Dry Gin – the world’s first vintage gin.

Our Shetland botanicals are infused with juniper and coriander, plus other botanicals including lime, to give our dry gin its unique and complex flavour.

We steep the botanicals in natural mineral water to release their gentle flavours before we go on to distillation in small batches using a traditional copper still.

Over the years our vintage gin has won gold medals and been judged by experts, across the world beating many well-known brands in the process.

Tasting note:

An abundance of citrus on the nose with gentle floral notes to follow.

Extremely smooth yet crisp with citrus, herbal and floral notes coming through on the palate.

Awards:-

2013

Gold Medal, Annual San Francisco Spirits Competition, Blackwoods Vintage (40%)

Bronze Medal, Annual San Francisco Spirits Competition, Blackwoods Vintage (60%)

Bronze Medal, International Spirits Challenge, Blackwoods Vintage (60%)

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